Will Stanton "died" sixty years later. At least to the appearance of everyone around him, he died. He was a bachelor, but constantly surrounded by the company of his nieces and nephews. He lived out the rest of his life on his old family farm, an estate to be inherited by his oldest nephew and carried on with the Stanton family.
He went in his sleep, and when they found him the next morning, the nurse swore up and down that he was smiling.
He was 18 again, his body was taut and young, and the hills that he had just crossed barely phased his energy supply. A great castle covered the land before him, the turrets in his sight well before he'd reached it. The sounds of laughter echoed from the courtyard on the side, and he ran to follow it.
"Will Stanton, whatever took you so long?"
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